“There all stood begging to be first across
And reached out longing hands to the far shore.”

—  Virgil , Aeneid

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Lines 313–314 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)

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Stabant orantes primi transmittere cursum Tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore.

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